Science has spoken

In the last two decades there is evidence that the likelihood of HIV transmission is directly related to the amount of virus present in the blood.

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The PARTNER, published in 2016, is a milestone. Αfter studying 58,000 sexual encounters without the use of a condom, where one partner was HIV-positive and the other being seronegative. The results showed that, where the HIV-positive partner was in an effective treatment, the virus was not transmitted to the HIV-negative partner. An effective treatment is one that results in the viral load count being too low, usually below 50 copies of the virus / ml blood (undetectable load). The PARTNER survey was followed by the PARTNER 2, published in May 2019. PARTNER 2 also recorded ZERO transmissions among 782 gay couples, where one partner was HIV positive and the other being seronegative.

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With incontrovertible evidence such as this, we can safely state that when a person is living with HIV and is in effective treatment, he/she CANNOT transmit HIV through sexual intercourse.

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Hence the phrase: 

U = U

Undetectable = Untransmittable

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